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Estate-agent Joshua, from Colorado Springs, Colorodo, said: 'It was a pretty cool shot. I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time and have the right equipment.''

Married father-of-two Joshua had been on holiday on the Central American country which has coastlines that have become notorious for crocodile attacks.

This is the incredible moment a crocodile is caught on camera eating a stingray

He added: 'I'd just gone with my daughter to look at the sea before returning home.

'At that moment, I saw something that looked like a tree trunk, which I found odd and then I realized it was not.

'I ran to grab the camera, I saw something sticking out, it looked like a branch of a tree and saw it moving for everywhere, so I guess at that time already was eating the ray. I estimate that this animal was about 2 or 3 meters, it was big.

Laura Porras, a researcher at the Institute for Conservation and Wildlife Management UN, said it is normal for crocodiles to feed so close to the shore but 'it is very difficult to capture the scene'.

Joshua Ten-Brink, 40, was walking along the Playa Tambor beach in Costa Rica when he spotted what he thought was a log in the shallows

Last year an American surfer survived a vicious crocodile attack after being bitten several times on his legs and head in Costa Rica but had to have his foot amputated.

There have been a number of other reports of attacks in the waters in recent years and a few moths ago another surfer was bitten in the sea.

Pat McNulty, a lifeguard in Tamarindo, further north from where the crocodile was spotted eating a ray, said after the attacks that people 'need to be aware of your environment. We're in their world.'

But the object started moving and the head of a croc appeared through the surf as it grappled with a deadly stingray